Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:54:31 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-7@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r198496 - in stable/7: etc etc/mtree include sys sys/contrib/pf sys/dev/mfi usr.sbin usr.sbin/acpi usr.sbin/adduser usr.sbin/arp usr.sbin/bluetooth usr.sbin/bluetooth/btpand usr.sbin/bl... Message-ID: <200910271354.32185.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <a31046fc0910261221m20d71483gd80ad83f1dbc4787@mail.gmail.com> References: <200910261857.n9QIvvcZ000107@svn.freebsd.org> <a31046fc0910261221m20d71483gd80ad83f1dbc4787@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 26 October 2009 3:21:10 pm pluknet wrote: > 2009/10/26 John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>: > > Author: jhb > > Date: Mon Oct 26 18:57:57 2009 > > New Revision: 198496 > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198496 > > > > Log: > > MFC 196200,196211,196280-196282: > > Introduce mfiutil, a basic utility for managing LSI SAS-RAID & Dell PERC5/6 > > controllers. Controller, array, and drive status can be checked, basic > > attributes can be changed, and arrays and spares can be created and deleted. > > Controller firmware can also be flashed. > > > > This does not replace MegaCLI, found in ports, as that is officially sanctioned > > and supported by LSI and includes vastly more functionality. However, mfiutil > > is open source and guaranteed to provide basic functionality, which can be > > especially useful if you have a problem and can't get MegaCLI to work. > > > > John, thank you very much for mfc'ing those nice mfi- and mptutil! > It's interesting to know if this can be mfc'ed to 6 safely in principle, > without breaking some of existing interfaces. > I tried to use both on 6, and my experience was quite successful. They should both work fine on 6, though I do not have any plans to MFC them in FreeBSD itself. mfiutil has even been known to work on 4.x. :) Also, 8.0 will ship before 7.3. :) -- John Baldwin
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